MSc Security Management (PgDip, PgCert)

Exploring the professional management of security and the protection of people, assets and information.
This 100% distance learning programme is delivered in partnership KNECT365/Informa.

• To enable students to develop advanced skills and competencies in conducing, evaluating and presenting research relevant to Security Management
• To provide distance learning programmes in Security Management for full-time employees
• To enable students to make an original contribution to the discipline of Security Management and the advancement of professional security practice
• To produce competent, informed reflectively and ethically competent students who have a developed academic understanding the key issues within Security Management and the theories which underpin the discipline

The need for increased global security has grown exponentially in recent years. Whereas traditional security measures were mostly about securing people and places through a variety of physical and human measures, today’s range of threats are far more diffuse.

Technology and the World Wide Web have not only brought societies around the globe closer together, they are both directly and indirectly responsible for creating vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities manifest in many different forms that span a spectrum of issues ranging from cybercrime, political and social upheaval, to recruiting would be terrorists. Moreover, as the world has become reliant on technology, the risk to personal and organisational information has also become vulnerable. Students will also achieve PgCert and PgDip exit awards during this course.